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The Circuit Breaker Pattern - Dos and Don'ts

Circuit Breaker Pattern Overview The microservice Circuit Breaker pattern is an automated switch capable of detecting extremely long response times or failures…

Architecture

Architectural Principles - Fault Isolation & Swimlanes

This is one of several articles on recommended architectural principles and goes into deeper depth to our post on the AKF Scale Cube made reference to a…

Architecture

CQRS Pattern - Command Query Responsibility Segregation

CQRS Overview The microservice CQRS Pattern (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) pattern is most commonly employed to help scale what might be otherwise…

Architecture

Strangler Pattern: Dos and Don’ts

Strangler Pattern Overview The microservice Strangler pattern is employed when teams migrate functionality from an old solution to one or more new…

Architecture

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Data Fuse

This article is the fifth in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…

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Microservice Anti-Pattern: The Service Mesh

This article is the sixth in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…

Architecture

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fuse

This article is the fourth in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…

Architecture

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Data Fan Out

This article is the third in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…

Architecture

Microservice Anti-Pattern: Service Fan Out

This article is the second in a multi-part series on microservices (micro-services) anti-patterns. The introduction of the first article, Service Calls In…